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NEW ISSUE: Furniture for the People

Our issue 66 looks at the past and future of street furniture in Toronto, plus sewers, outdoor ice rinks, accessibility, TTC guide uniforms, and more.

By Dylan Reid

The imminent end of the 20-year contract with Astral Media to supply and manage Toronto’s street furniture is a foreseeable follow-up to Spacing’s 20th anniversary. The development of the contract began just a few years after we were founded, and it was one of the issues we were most active about in those early years. It sat right at the heart of our mandate to discuss the public spaces of Toronto, and fit into our continuing interest in design. While we’ve had many magazine and online... Read more

Toronto Spacing

Spacing nominated for National Magazine Award

The magazine's 20th anniversary issue is a nominee for Best Editorial Package
By Spacing
Toronto Podcast

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 077, Spring cleaning in Toronto

In this episode: Terrible trash cans and Russian hackers
By Spacing Radio
Vancouver Architecture

S101S – Understanding Shadow Studies: Why They Matter

Shadow studies often get lost amid the seemingly more pressing issues related to current urban planning and design. However, the relevance of shadow...
By Erick Villagomez
Toronto Community

Are commercial “third places” a dying breed?

A recent renovation of his local Starbucks that discourages spending time there has Craig Meerkamper pondering the loss of spaces to hang out between home and workplace.
By Craig Meerkamper
Toronto Waterfront

Dangerous Development: ‘Boulder beaches’ are unsafe and bad for us and our environment

At a time when Ontario Place has been put off limits, the City's new approach to making beaches is not an improvement
By Steve Mann
National Architecture

Book Review: To the Ends of the Earth – A Grand Tour for the 21st Century

“As developed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant in the 18th century, to experience the sublime is to feel an acute sense of being overawed by...
By Sean Ruthen

Vancouver Culture

Seeing Consciousness

I walked into a room one day, and for a moment I could literally see the fierce neural blaze of consciousness in the people around me, and the shimmering...
By Derek DeLand
Toronto Housing

LORINC: It’s time to talk about the Committee of Adjustment

These tribunals attract the worst kind of NIMBYism and don't belong in a city that needs to fight a housing crisis on every front
By John Lorinc
Toronto Civic Engagement

Youth Design Jam for Downsview

High school students came up with urban design ideas for a prize aimed at getting them excited about planning
By Nathan Abraha
Vancouver Maps

Noise: The Invisible Pollutant

By 2050, an estimated one million new individuals are expected to make their home in the Metro Vancouver area. This projected influx of new residents is...
By Thierry Haddad
Toronto Services

What is the cost of ransomware attack on Toronto Library?

With the City footing the bill for what happened at the Toronto Public Library, a heightened awareness of the importance of cyber-security kicks in
By John Lorinc
Toronto Photos

The Urban Photography of Arthur Goss, Part 2: The Housing Series, 1936-1940

Toronto's first official photographer captured the state of housing at the end of the Great Depression
By Peter MacCallum

National Podcast

The Future Fix: Dipping into water data

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series.
By Spacing Radio
National Podcast

THE FUTURE FIX: Vivre en Ville à Victoriaville

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. This is a special, French-language edition.
By Spacing Radio
Toronto Podcast

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 076, Time’s running out for accessible Ontario

In this episode: missed accessibility targets and panoramic Victorian Toronto (now in colour)
By Spacing Radio

Toronto Podcast

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 075, What does change cost?

In this episode: the Toronto budget, shelters, and a circus riot
By Spacing Radio
Toronto Podcast

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 074, 20 Years of Spacing

In this episode: how the magazine began at a picnic table, and former Toronto Mayor David Miller on Spacing's impact
By Spacing Radio
National Podcast

The Future Fix: Preventing Extreme Heat Disaster

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series.
By Spacing Radio
National Podcast

The Future Fix: Ending Energy Poverty

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series.
By Spacing Radio
National Podcast

The Overhead: Women and Children Fleeing Violence

Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
By Glyn Bowerman
National Podcast

The Future Fix: Lac-Mégantic: a model of resilience

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. This is a special, French-language edition.
By Spacing Radio
Toronto Podcast

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 073, Love Park and Love Letters

In this episode: a new Toronto park, a play about Google, and a sneak peak at the latest magazine
By Spacing Radio
National Podcast

The Overhead: Community Land Trusts

Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
By Spacing Radio
Toronto Podcast

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 072, From Leipzig With Love

This Spring, Spacing Radio had the opportunity to take the show on the road to the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany. Now that the whole...
By Spacing Radio

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Toronto Culture

The Ultimate Guide to the Best Songs About Toronto

In the Fall 2023 issue of Spacing (coming soon to a store or mailbox near you), we shine a spotlight on five “Toronto Troubadours” — musicians “dedicated...
By Todd Harrison
Toronto Pandemic

LORINC: The pandemic is about cities

Viruses, in the abstract, don’t care much about their host organisms, beyond the latter’s on-board, physiological defenses. Yet it’s clear the coronavirus...
By John Lorinc
Vancouver Architecture

S101S—Understanding Residential Density: FSR, Building Setbacks and Height Regulations

What is Floor Space Ratio (FSR) and how does it interact with building setbacks and height regulations to create building forms and the ‘look and feel’ of...
By Erick Villagomez
Toronto Waterfront

What’s really happening at Ontario Place? (Part 1)

The investigation by Ontario Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk into the Ford government’s removal of 7,400 acres of prime farmland and wetlands from the...
By Ian Darragh
Toronto Housing

LORINC: The Tories’ use-it-or-lose housing ruse

On the north-east corner of Bathurst and St. Clair West sits a snazzy purpose-built condo sales office, ostensibly there to promote Foret, a giant...
By John Lorinc
Toronto Waterfront

Q&A with Steven Evans on photographing Ontario Place

With the chaotic Greenbelt scandal swirling in the background, the updated plans for the Ford government’s deeply contentious and destructive scheme...
By John Lorinc

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